The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-02-23
GOVERNMENT LANDS.
TWO WAYS BY WHICH FREE HOMES
MAY BE ACQUIRED.

MAY BE ACQUIRED.
Provisions of the Homestead Law-How
Land May be Acquired by Timber Gull
ture Entry-Rights of HonOrabIy Dis
charged Soldiers.
Government lands are available for free
honesteads in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona,
California, Colorado, Dakota, Florida, Idaho,
Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota,
Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Wash
ington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Texas has
no free lands. When she won her independ-
ence, at the saber's point, her domain be
came absolutely her own, and when the COM
pact of union with the other states was
formed she retained her proprietorship. The
lands Of Alaska are not open to settlement,
and no title to any of them, save such mar
rowed and uncertain interests as may be de
rived from old Russian grants, be OBJ
tanned There is a fiction that some vacant
lands remain untaken in Indiana and Illinois,
but it has no foundation. a few undesirable
quarter section may be found in remote parts
of Iowa Within the vast public domain are
found every variety of soil and climate, and
every condition which men regard as cOndu-
Give to prosperous rural life. The OppOrtu-
nifty for choice is almost unlimited.
Free homes may be acquired from the gov
eminent domain in two ways-by home
stead and by timber culture entries. The
first Of these ways is general in its applica-
ton, while the second is available only in
the prairie countries. The homestead law
enables actual settlers to secure title to not
more than 100 acres each, provided the home
steader be II years old the head of
family and a citizen of the United States, or
one who has legally declared his intention to
become a citizen. The settlement must be
actual and for the purpose of cultivation. To
complete title the hOmesteader must within
six months after entry begin to live on the
land, and must continue his residence there
for five years without intermissOn
HONORABLY DISCHARGED SOLDIERS.
If the settler has served in the army or
navy of the United States, and been honor
ably discharged, the period of such service is
deducted from the five years of residence,
but the residence must last at least one year.
Soldiers discharged because of wounds are
entitled to deduct the entire term of their
enlistment. Stock raising and darying are
construed cultivation. The land office
fees for homestead entries, payable when APP
plcatiOn Is made, are: In Alabama, Arkan-
sas, Dakota, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Louis
lana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and
Nebraska, land within the limits of a rail
road grant, for 100 acres, SIS; for so acres,
SO; for 40 acres, 81; land outside the limits
of railroad grant, for 100 acres, S14; for
50 acres, 81; for 40 acres, Sc. In Arizona,
California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Wash
ingtOn, Wyoming and Wisconsin, land With
the limits of a railroad grant, for 100
es, S22; for so acres, $11; for 40 acres, IS;
! outside the limit of railroad grant.
&c
acres, $3.50. The fees for final proof
the first named states are 81, and in the
named states Sc for $50 acres of land out
sl3 the railway limit, and double these for
land within such limit, smaller tracts being
caarged prOpOrtionaEly.
IL government lands in Arkansas and
siissouri, all United States lands i'll Michi-
gau, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Kansas, ex-
-apt Odd-nGmbered sections within the limits
of railroad grants, made since Jan. l, 1861
and all government land in all other states
and territories which does not fall under the
above exception, and which is not reserved
ID designated coal or mineral land, are
open to homestead entry. 1t is not necessary
faat government surveys should precede set
Element, although they must be made before
tile cap be perfected. The settler on unsur-
seved land acquires a preferred right" to
su ler it.
THE TIMBER CULTURE LAW.
Upon the prairie lands 100 acres may be |
8cquired under the timber culture law. the |
Publications of the settler being the same as
Tor homestead. The fees in this case are |
BIZ at the time of entry and "a when the |
mai proof is made. No distinction is made |
as regards lands within or without the limits |
Of railroad grants The requirements are
ezht years residence and the cultivation of
"a stated area of forest trees per year. Lands
aC4uired under either of the above laws are
NOT subject to tRe debts of the settler made
prs or to their acquisition. Under the desert
Ind law $40 acres can be acquired by pay
inent Of twenty-five cents per acre down, the
Instruction Of means of irrigation, and the
Yment of 81 per acre at the end of three
gs ars.
The entries of government land were, in
r IND numbers, 100000 acres in 1888 l.
100000 acres in 1884, and 2O.OOOOOO acres
1888 At this rate the available area in
Iding reserves, will be exhausted within
rn3 next two decades
In addition to the government lands. vari-
S states offer to settlers at nominal prices
-nglng from six cents to as many dollars
s r acre, IS, 50O,O 900 acres of desirable land
There is held in reserve by the federal gov
=rnment all the vast territory of Alaska, and
p out 81, COO acres of Indian reservations,
elusive of Indian territory and Oklahoma
le different territories also hold %, SOC, 900
res of land for the benefit of their school
nds when they shall become states These
reserve areas VIII be futher increased by
ne 100000 acres which is now salt
marshes, but which can be recovered from
g seas. Several million acres viii also be
ded TO the free domain through forfeitures
railway grants. The lands Of Alaska are
uncertain availability, but that possession
ID afford at least 50, 900, 900 acres susceptible
modified cultivation. The Indian reserva-
ms are choice farming sections and the
cas- reserved to the territories J. rtaEe OF Ii
varying characteristics Of the regions in
lich they Iie.-ChicaGo News
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